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by ratsmack 6y ago
If they are selling the Fire Stick with only the base Kodi executable, I don't see how that would illegal. But if they are also loading add-ons that allow people to circumvent paywalls, then that is probably a problem.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
It is well known that China produces an enormous number of electronic devices and has access to most of the embedded firmware installed, yet it seems that Russia is always the accused target of these alleged attacks.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
This is why the level of "justice" you receive is directly proportional to your ability to pay a team of lawyers in many cases.
664.
by ratsmack 6y ago
But I have the right to be offended... what about that?
665.
by ratsmack 6y ago
Looks like we won't know what the depth of the intrusion was for some time to come. And I'm sure there will be a lot that won't be disclosed.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
The never ending attempt to censor people because someone was offended seems to be accelerating... where will it end?
667.
by ratsmack 6y ago
It's surprising how many hacks are from insiders or through social engineering.
668.
by ratsmack 6y ago
It would be nice to know if they did or if it was ever required of them.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
>Three people familiar with the investigation have told Reuters that Russia is a top suspect, although others familiar with the inquiry have said it is still too early to tell. If this is the case, then why is Russia so definitively port
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by ratsmack 6y ago
>"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... that's the combination I use on my luggage." These people are supposed to be security professionals.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
> Russian intelligence This tired overused response seems to always appear with very little corroborative evidence released after the fact. I suspect China and others are just as active in the spy arena.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-94percent-of-co...
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by ratsmack 6y ago
I think the best solution is to just hire people that are best qualified to direct or lead a company. I don't believe investors would be thrilled if a company hired a CEO based on their sexual orientation or race instead of their abili
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by ratsmack 6y ago
The John Hopkins powers that be have yet to publish what "inaccuracies" there were that required the take down. I suspect that they got "the call" from someone that is connected to their line of funding.
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A closer look at U.S. deaths due to Covid-19(jhunewsletter.com)
11 points by ratsmack 6y ago|6 comments
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by ratsmack 6y ago
I believe that most of the manual moderation of both Facebook and Twitter is done through contractors.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
Internet usage should be based on a standard connection charge and then a per GB usage charge... this is generally how power companies charge for their service. If you think about it, the average users are subsidizing the minority that have
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by ratsmack 6y ago
> downvoting costs you some karma Gab had implemented that early on, but currently I believe they eliminated down voting altogether.
679.
by ratsmack 6y ago
But then it's not your opinion, but just a statement to appease the audience.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
>HN uses voting to legitimize content of higher quality The majority of the down votes I have seen are for disagreement, and not for the quality of the post. I have seen many comments down voted and flagged dead that were eloquently stat
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by ratsmack 6y ago
My choice in the awk family is mawk, because it is still the fastest one of them all.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
This site tracks all the strains: https://nextstrain.org/sars-cov-2/
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by ratsmack 6y ago
There really isn't such a thing as "hate speech", so a law could never be defined. https://youtu.be/Ea2ntXnCD_M
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by ratsmack 6y ago
Dry ice is -79C (-110F) which would probably be close enough in my uneducated opinion. Dry ice is also readily available in many locations and is relatively easy to produce.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
Care to elaborate on how it might have been compromised?
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by ratsmack 6y ago
>showing a massive second wave in Sweden What is the difference in testing for covid at the beginning compared to now? I seems that no one takes into account that the world wide deaths are down as infections spike, and that the two week
687.
by ratsmack 6y ago
This whole setup seems smarmy and illegal. Hopefully some class action is rallied against this deceptive practice.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
The Twitter comments are brutal.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
You can un-dead them in order to read, but not comment.
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by ratsmack 6y ago
>"hate speech" IS explicitly defined I suspect, though, that these laws are a continuously moving target, from what I have observed with various incidents in the UK for example.

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